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Colombian carbon project developers were blindsided last week by a decree that granted ‘cultural objection’ as an extension of Indigenous sovereignty and ‘free, prior, and informed consent’ (FPIC) – but they should not have been, according to a Colombian environmental lawyer.

The EU should reconsider allowing certain high-quality carbon removals credits into its Emissions Trading System (ETS) — simultaneously supporting the development of international Article 6 markets, according to a recent study.

The European Commission is advancing its carbon farming framework with a gradual approach, aiming to develop robust methodologies for agricultural carbon removals early next year, EU officials have said.

Karenia mikimotoi algae can suffocate fish, cause haemorrhaging and act as a neurotoxin, one expert says

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More than 200 marine species, including deepwater sharks, leafy sea dragons and octopuses, have been killed by a toxic algal bloom that has been affecting South Australia’s coastline since March.

Nearly half (47%) of the dead species were ray-finned fish and a quarter (26%) were sharks and rays, according to OzFish analysis of 1,400 citizen scientist reports.

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Long-term reform is not going to be easy, but we have now wasted 15 years and everyone has lost, especially the natural world

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Long overdue reform of national environment laws is unfinished business for the 48th parliament and the re-elected Albanese government.

Senator Murray Watt, a Queenslander, is well respected within the government and has a reputation for taking hard decisions and bringing together diverse stakeholders. Both of these attributes will be at a premium if the minister is to succeed where others have not.

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A German engineering multinational offset 531,300 tonnes of CO2 in 2024 – down 49,600 tonnes or 8.5% from the previous year – as expanded clean energy use reduced its Scope 1 and 2 footprint, the company said in its latest sustainability report.

Amid further delays to the Polish government's plans to wrestle coal assets away from energy companies, two of the country's major energy producers have taken matters in their own hands, casting doubts over the success of Warsaw's push.

Sustainable farming initiative is part of payment package that replaced EU’s common agricultural policy

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Ministers wrongly refused nature funding to 3,000 farmers in England when they shut the post-Brexit subsidy scheme, the government has admitted.

There was anger earlier this year when the environment secretary, Steve Reed, suddenly paused a key post-Brexit farming payments scheme with little information about what would replace it and when.

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As CO2 infrastructure develops around industrial clusters in the North Sea, the overall cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in a country like the Netherlands is seen nearing the symbolic €200 per tonne of CO2 mark, experts say.

Supportive regulatory developments continued to point towards a brighter near-term future for the voluntary carbon market, as CORSIA Phase 1-eligible futures traded above $24 in one Asia-based exchange.

Achieving net zero CO2 emissions could lead to a global decrease in temperature extremes, but the extent of this reduction will vary significantly across regions, a new report has found.

Exclusive: Campaigners call for energy profits levy to be made permanent to enable ‘just transition’ from fossil fuels

Making permanent the UK’s windfall tax on oil and gas producers would generate enough cash to enable North Sea workers to move to green jobs, research has found.

Cutting current subsidies to fossil fuel producers would free up yet more funds to spend on the shift to a low-carbon economy, according to the report.

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A reforestation initiative in Mexico with a seed bank is looking to generate voluntary biodiversity credits stacked with carbon units across 10,000 hectares, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund announced on Sunday it will engage mining companies Rio Tinto and South32 to address environmental concerns linked to their operations in the Amazon rainforest, rather than divest in the companies.

European carbon prices jumped sharply on Monday morning on reports of an interim reduction in tariffs by both China and the US, breaching technical resistance level and rising to a seven-week high, while energy prices and UKAs also rose steeply in response to the news.

Controversial new changes to the federal Environment Protection & Biodiversity Act could have important consequences for renewables.

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China is providing a new business case and proof of concept for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) at coal-fired power stations, dropping the cost of capture by over 40% and demonstrating the tech’s scalability for emissions reductions, a paper from an Australian coal lobby group argued Monday.

An oil and gas major has thrown its weight behind the UK government's plan for extending the country's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) beyond 2030, saying it will maintain an incentive for investments in low-carbon technologies. 

The Swedish and Kenyan governments are in late-stage talks for an Article 6.2 bilateral agreement, Carbon Pulse has learned from well-placed stakeholders convened in Kampala for the East Africa Carbon Markets Forum last week.

Hundreds of jobs may be at risk, say heads of ABF Sugar and Ensus, as Starmer agrees to remove tariffs on US ethanol

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The British bioethanol industry could collapse as a result of Keir Starmer’s trade deal with Donald Trump, industry bosses have said.

The bosses of ABF Sugar and Ensus, the companies behind almost all of the UK’s production capacity of bioethanol – a petrol substitute produced from agricultural products – have said hundreds of jobs in north-east England and Yorkshire could be at risk as a result of the deal.

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